Improvement in buckles



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I BUCKLE. No.`171,966. v Patented Jan.11,1876.

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'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

` EDWARD YOUNG, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,966, dated Januaryl1, 1876; application filed December 9, 1875.

l buckles, but it can be applied to buckles of various kinds and fordiierent purposes.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of a buckle inwhich the eyelet or rivet fastening on the center crossbar is of onepiece with the body of the buckle. Thus greater simplicity, strength,durability, andcheapness are attained than are found in the buckles asordinarily constructed-viz., in two or more pleces. Again, the buckle,being (with the exception of the tongue) of a single piece, is moreeasily attached to the leather, as it remains steadily in place, anddoes not swing back in the way of the workman.

In the accompanying illustration, Figure 1 is a plan of my improvedbuckle. Fig. 2 is a section through the line a: .r when the buckle isattached to a strap.

a. is the body of the buckle. a is the crossbar, and a a are the holesinto which the eyelets or rivets are to be placed. The body a andcross-bar a', containing the eyelet-holes a, are of a single piecestruck up in a die. b is the leather or strap, to which the buckle issecured by means of eyelets c or rivets, as the case may be. dis thetongue.4

Of course, the general shape of the buckle may be altered at pleasure.

Having thus fully described Vmy invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a buckle in which the center cross-barcontains the holes for the eyelets or rivets, and is made of one v piecewith the body of the buckle.

